This is the second volume of the critically acclaimed "New York Times" best-selling new series from the Eisner-nominated creative team of Mike Carey and Peter Gross. Tom Taylor's father created the Tommy Taylor fantasy series, boy-wizard novels with popularity on par with Harry Potter. The problem: Dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom's real life that fans are constantly comparing him to his counterpart...dangerously so. When a scandal reveals that Tom might really be a boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious group that's kept tabs on him all his life. Now, to protect his own life and discover the truth behind his origins, Tom will travel the world, eventually finding himself at locations all featured on a special map that charts places throughout world history where fiction has shaped reality. In this volume, Tom arrives at Donostia prison in southern France and falls into the orbit of another story: "The Song of Roland". Unfortunately for Tom, it's a story that ends with a massacre...
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Product Description:
Tom Taylor's father created the Tommy Taylor fantasy series, boy-wizard novels with popularity on par with Harry Potter. The problem: Dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom's real life that fans are constantly comparing him to his counterpart... dangerously so.
About the Author:
Mike Carey is the writer of Elektra, Fantastic Four, Inferno, My Faith in Frankie and the smash-hit Lucifer. He is currently writing X-Men and Wetworks. Peter Gross has contributed artwork to The Sandman, The Books of Magic: Summonings, and The Books of Magic: Reckonings.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherTitan Books Ltd
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0857680277
- ISBN 13 9780857680273
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages168
-
Rating